Film & TV Essays and Term Papers

who has far more to contend to than her study in her final year at school. This year her life is turned upside down when her father comes into her life for the first time, her close friend commits suicide, family secrets come out, she forms a relationshi…

educational shows for children. Are they really teaching kids with the right techniques? Are they teaching kids anything at all? It's a battle to see which is better: Barney or Sesame Street.         Sesame Street and Barney have totally…

travelled - the essence of money, love and values of The Family Man. Which could be happier?" Imagine waking up to the wail of a distressed baby, the call of a child jumping on your bed and the slobber of dog saliva over your face. Add the confusion…

epic tale from the Emmy-winning writer of Gulliver's Travels was a ratings bust on television, but on video and DVD, where it can be enjoyed at one's leisure, it has a better chance to cast its magical spell. Kimberly Williams has never been…

director Lars Von Trier's "Dogville" premiered at Cannes nearly a year ago and has been playing at festivals, and dividing audiences, ever since. Despite its aesthetic simplicity, the ambitious film may be too long for its impatient American audience.…

states that, "A judge does not make the laws, he carries out the laws of his country." Throughout the trial, what strategies does he use to defend these laws in an attempt to discredit the prosecution's case? Hans Rolfe, the defense attorney,…

have plots based on the classic Greek tragedy. Mystic River, a film directed by Clint Eastwood, follows this formula in some respect but it would be note worthy to examine how it differs. Dave Boyle, Jimmy Markum, and Sean Devine are playing in the…

with little experience at all. Having come from UCLA, where she ran track competitively, Prince-Blythewood had all the means possible to relate to this story. Since age seven, Prince-Blythewood was competing on team sports, being the only girl…

slowly closing in on a white surveillance van whilst a voice is singing (in German) a motivation song created by an SS guard in Buchenwald about heading towards an ideological goal involving a small village, Treblinka. The audience is made aware…

was quite good but in others, quite bad. Even right from the opening scene, the inaccuracies start. First, there was no last great battle with the Germanic tribes on the eve of Marcus Aurelius' death. There was a great daylong battle late in the campaign…